Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Chester UK<br/>
Date: Jul 06, 2003 @ 18:51<br/>
Author: Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell &lt;kevin@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-807307436">Hi,<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;well researched<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Thanks for the bringing the stadium to our attention!<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;The enclave part came in the part of the buildings which were included in <br/>
&gt;the wording but not the ground surronding it.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Ah, okay.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;As I understand it Northern Ireland is in GB and UK.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>You&#39;re right in a certain sense. The codes &#39;GB&#39; and &#39;GBR&#39; are the ISO <br/>
3166-1 designations for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern <br/>
Ireland, which is what I suspect confuses everyone. The reason why &#39;UK&#39; is <br/>
not used, is because the ISO 3166-1 standard requires that alpha codes <br/>
reflect a unique component of the country name, meaning that prefixes such <br/>
as &#39;Kingdom&#39; or &#39;Republic&#39; are generally not permitted. Of course, just to <br/>
doubly confuse everyone, &#39;UK&#39; is used as an Internet Top-Level Domain <br/>
because it was allocated before ISO 3166-1 was officially adopted for ccTLD <br/>
delegations.<br/>
<br/>
However, Northern Ireland is definitely not part of Great Britain in the <br/>
geographical sense. Great Britain is just England, Scotland and Wales <br/>
(including their associated islands).<br/>
<br/>
As you correctly say, the British Isles are generally accepted to be all <br/>
the islands including Ireland, although I believe the Irish officially use <br/>
the term &#39;North Atlantic Islands&#39;.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;Rockall is claimed by Iceland, Norway (Faroe Islands) and Ireland in <br/>
&gt;addition to the UK.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I believe Rockall was formally incorporated into Scotland in 1971, and is <br/>
thus considered to be an integral (albeit disputed) part of the UK.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;Britain has four votes to everyone elses (OK USA actally has Guam etc.) one.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Not to mention France, Denmark, the Netherlands and China who could also be <br/>
considered to have multiple votes ;-) To be honest though, at the risk of <br/>
straying too far off the multipointing topic, I think much of the talk of <br/>
reducing the number of votes is tabloid scaremongering. The four <br/>
&#39;historical&#39; UK associations are actually guaranteed by Article 1.4 of the <br/>
FIFA statutes.<br/>
<br/>
Regards,<br/>
<br/>
Kevin Meynell</div>